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Fashion

FASHION has a special place in photography. Although the subject matter is clothes, jewellery, dress accessories and make-up, it can also serve as an indicator of social behaviour.
Fashion photography is principally a professional concern. The market for this kind of image is commercial - as in advertisements and fashion magazines - and there is a strong element of elitism.

This city, the fashion capital of the world, has also become a major training ground for beginning designers from far and wide.
Many foreign designers from Asia as well as from Europe have set up shop in Paris. And many of these new talents received their academic training here.
As a result, teaching fashion has also become a very profitable business.

How often we've enjoyed the talents of Florence Smales and Kitty Leslie, the great commentators. Their fashion productions have raised millions of dollars for Orange County charities.
Smales stood at the microphone for 40 years. Some of those years, she also operated two modeling schools and a modeling agency while producing fashions shows for hundreds of Orange County organizations.

``When people are comfortable about how they look and they feel natural with their look, then they look great,'' says Tori Hartman, fashion consultant.
She encourages women to find their style type -- whether it be sporty, romantic, traditional, classic, dramatic or trendy -- and stick with it.